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The beauty and simplicity of A TRAINING COURSE in Miracles (ACIM) really shines through one of its major principles: The Law of Cause and Effect. This is different from the Law of Attraction, a subject on which so much has been written about these last couple of years. ACIM answers not only why things are the way they are with the mind, but additionally how exactly to implement these mind corrections had a need to change your daily life. What it ultimately comes down to is the choice to change beliefs while residing in this world, or the decision to correct your brain and return home.

Affirmations are not section of A Course in Miracles as they are not essential and here’s why: There is a “wrong” ego mind, and a “right” ego mind, both of which are still part of the same ego side of the split mind. Within the ego mind (error), the wrong side is all of the negative judgments; and the right side is all the negative judgments attempting to convince you how wonderful it really is to live here in this negative world. Neither may be the truth of your nature nor what your location is trying to return your brain, according to ACIM.

The Law of Cause and Effect is this: According to the mind you use as cause, you will notice the corresponding effect. Ideas usually do not leave their source: You.



Let’s use this example:

Someone is feeling the effects to be “poor,” or lack, in this world and wants to change their beliefs to now have “rich” (abundance, prosperity, money) show up. Both “poor” and “rich” are judgments of the ego deploying it as cause that may only produce ego effect. Ego being an unstable thought system, everything you choose as “rich” will eventually go and you find yourself back with “poor.” It’s just a question of “when.”

The ego’s choice system is: (1) one or another: (2) poor or rich; and, (3) ego or God. It asks you to choose between a couple of things within the ego illusion rather than to choose out from the illusion.

This is in contrast to choosing correction of the mind (forgiveness) where both “poor” and “rich” do not exist. A choice for correction of your brain allows the Holy Spirit Right Mind to be your cause which affects the you in this world; however, it does not have the effects you imagine since the ego cannot relate. It returns a portion of the mind to peace and ends senseless worry over rich and poor. It also produces effects that you experienced here but you must choose correction to see them.

Let’s look at how ACIM breaks this all down into a simple group of principles based on Cause and Effect. It only has a few components and when understood and used, they might be “mind” correcting!

The Metaphysics:

Remember, according to ACIM, your brain is split by the ego’s judgment that people could be separate, often known as the “tiny mad idea,” or the error that never occurred. This part of the mind is simply hidden in darkness since it banished itself from Knowledge (Heaven and Oneness) whenever we forgot to laugh off what cannot be true. It did not, however, separate.

So in ACIM it is not about affirmations or changing beliefs, because the mind never left God but still resides at home with Him. You can find no “belief” judgments in Love, Oneness, Heaven and Knowledge as everything is the same, all one, and nothing to believe or judge between.

Instead, it is all about changing your internal Teacher or rather, who you’re listening to for interpretation of events in this world. The only real change is in the decision between the split mind (error) of the ego or the Holy Spirit Right Mind (correction) as that internal Teacher.

That’s where the simplicity is evident in ACIM because there’s no convincing the ego wrong and right mind of another thought process. You simply give up what you no more want. We do it all the time with ego stuff; and now we just do it with the ego beliefs themselves.

Forgiveness:

This says it all: Forgiveness is correction of the mind. In ACIM, you’ll find nothing to forgive because no error has happened, i.e., no separation happened. What you are really doing is simply returning your mind to God, where it never left, and to its natural state of peace. To achieve that is simply either which side of the split mind to hear for interpretation of events and turning over the judgments you no longer desire to the Holy Spirit Right Mind for correction (forgiveness).

The Holy Spirit may be the solution to the separation placed in your brain by God and every answer is there waiting for you. Atonement, forgiveness, salvation and True Perception are other words which are synonymous. You need to be willing to utilize the Holy Spirit Right Mind for interpretation of events and do the specific work of giving judgments (beliefs) to this side of the mind, via your choice maker, because you no more want them.

It really is that simple and only confusing due to the belief that the only choice is between ego judgments of “poor” and “rich,” to utilize the earlier example, rather than understanding about this third option being available. The choice for True Perception is to choose neither ego judgment and relinquish both for correction of your brain. un curso de milagros This is what is takes to return your brain to God.

Decision Maker:

ACIM is aimed at the decision maker in the mind. The complete point is that you’ve got a selection of which side of the mind to listen to and use for interpretation. That is all that ever happened to begin with. It was a choice to pay attention, believe and choose judgments of the ego that separation happened and the ensuing sin, guilt and fear. Judgments can be dismissed as easily as you dismiss anything else you do not want because they’re not real.

Two things stop you from relinquishing judgments: (1) your attachment in their mind to be true and real; and, (2) not acknowledging the way you feel keeps them hidden and that means you don’t realize they are judgments.

You do not “feel” in Heaven, Knowledge and Oneness. It is an experience shared by One.

The decision maker is the mechanism between your two sides of the split mind. It really is neutral, an observer and is something you will need to employ to watch your brain and the judgments being created by the ego. Once you realize you purchased something from the ego error of the incorrect or right mind, just be willing to hand them to the solution, or the correction, of the Holy Spirit Right Mind. It requires care of the others as the Atonement or solution has already been there. No affirmations are necessary. You are simply quitting that which you no more want. It is, and certainly can, be so easy.

Form and Content:

The last element of know from the Course in Miracles is form and content. Form is this world and everything inside it. In ACIM, form will not matter and is area of the “beliefs” to be turned over. However, you use everything in form, along with the judgments in your mind, because the curriculum of what things to turn over for correction (forgiveness).

What does matter is content and in ACIM, content is the mind. The mind you are using for interpretation (perception) of individuals, places, and things, etc., counts for everything. You can only have one master: (1) the Holy Spirit Right Mind (correction); or, (2) the ego wrong mind (error) and that includes both interpretations of the ego mind.

In conclusion, consider the simplicity of ACIM which is a Course in training your mind how to perceive properly. You must return the mind to peace because the Kingdom of God is peace and you also cannot start to see the doorway from judgment. You only see peace in peace even though sharing peace with everyone.

All ACIM says is you have the willingness to learn how to do this, study the ideas and put it into practice. The help you need will show up; but you, my friend, must do the work of this inward journey back into the mind.

REGULATIONS of Cause and Effect may be the form, or mind, you’re using for interpretation will undoubtedly be your effect in this world. It’ll affect you in different ways by returning your brain back to back again to peace where you eventually see the illusion of choice, because no separation occurred, and choose to give it up once and for all.